Staff profile

Professor Marilyn Lake

Professor

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

DMB E116, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

MA (Tasmania), PhD (Monash), FAHA.

Membership of professional Associations

Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences. Fellow, Academy of the Humanities. VP, Australian Historical Association. Board member, Victorian Women’s Trust.

Area of study

History
Australian Studies

Brief Profile

Professor Marilyn Lake was awarded a Personal Chair in History at La Trobe University in 1994.She has published 12 books and numerous articles and book chapters in Australian and international anthologies, on subjects ranging from labour history to land settlement, sexuality and citizenship, gender and nationalism, feminism and the politics of anti-racism. She has a particular interest in the class, gender and racial dimensions of political history understood in both national and transnational frames of analysis.

Research interests

Australian History

- 19th and 20th century Australian history

- Collective memory and the Myth of Anzac

Human Rights and Justice Issues

- Race and human rights

Teaching Units

HIS2/3MMH - Memory, Myth and History.

Recent Publications

Lake, M and Reynolds, H 2008, Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Campaign for Racial Equality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press and Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

 

Lake, M 2008, ‘White Man's Country: Locating Australia in the World’, in Making Australian History: Perspectives on the Past Since 1788, ed. Deborah Gare and David Ritter. Sydney: Thomson.

 

Lake, M 2008, ‘Fellow Feeling: A Transnational Perspective on Conceptions of Civil Society and Citizenship in “White Men’s Countries”, 1890-1910’, in Civil Society, Public Sphere and Gender Justice Historical and Comparative Perspectives, ed. Karen Hagemann, Sonya Michel and Gunilla Budde.  Oxford and New York: Berghahn Publishers.

 

Lake, M 2008, ‘Equality and Exclusion: The Racial Constitution of Colonial Liberalism’. Thesis Eleven. 95: 20-32.

Curthoys, A and Lake, M 2006, Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective. Canberra: ANU ePress.

 

Lake, M 2006, Memory, Monuments and Museums. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.

 

Lake, M 2003, ‘History and Nation’, in Whitewash, ed. Robert Manne. Melbourne: Black Inc.

 

Lake, M 2002, FAITH: Faith Bandler Gentle Activist. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin.

 

Lake, M 1999, Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin.

Grimshaw, P, Lake, M, McGrath, A and Quartly, M 1994, Creating a Nation. Ringwood: Penguin.

Research projects

Australian-American male friendships and republican desire c.1900. Australian imperial ambition in the Pacific, 1870-1920. The history of human rights and modern mobility. Democracy and race: a modern history.